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Re: define multi-line comments
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David Hansen |
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Re: define multi-line comments |
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Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:01:06 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:46:37 +0200 henry atting wrote:
> I have my own text mode (derived from text-mode), which defines some
> syntax highlighting. Defining keywords is no problem but as far as I see
> keywords don't work on serveral lines, e.g. this
>
> (list "\".*\"" 0 'font-lock-variable-name-face t)
>
> only highlights words or phrases till the line break.
> Can anyone give me a hint how to get it work multi-line.
There are some words about this in the Elisp manual, lookup
`font-lock-multiline'. But this is incredible complicated.
Good luck ;p
But in many circumstances you can use `font-lock-syntactic-keywords' to
make some region a "string" or "comment" and then use
`font-lock-syntactic-face-function' to give it another face.
David